Monday, September 6, 2021

Rock Bottom


 


It’s not easy being a bystander

watching the moorings slip

as the vessel bobs uncertainly in the water.


Is it going under?


It’s not easy remaining silent

when the volume of insanity becomes deafening.

Drowning out all sense and decency

and the tiny fragments of altruism

still caught in the clenched fists

of those who have yet to abandon hope.


Are we going under?


It’s not easy turning  my back

to the little lives I’ve loved and protected 

as the inconceivable happens.

As indignant parents-

MOTHERS

start clambering for the right

to make their own children

less safe.


They’re going under.

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